- Dec 1 Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico
Jim Bakker
Dec 1 Jim Bakker, American televangelist and convicted fraud is released from jail
Schumann's Manuscript Sells
Dec 1 Manuscript by Robert Schumann of his 2nd Symphony sells for $2.3M, a record for any 19th century work, at auction in London, England
Tupac Shakur
Dec 1 Rapper Tupac Shakur convicted on sexual assault charge, and later sentenced to up to 4 1/2 years in prison
Cobb
Dec 2 "Cobb" a film about baseball player Ty Cobb, starring Tommy Lee Jones premieres
- Dec 2 Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to hospital for ulcer treatment
- Dec 2 Cruise liner Achille Lauro (Willem Ruys) sinks off the coast of Somalia
- Dec 2 Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring
- Dec 3 3rd SEC Championship Game: #6 Florida beats #3 Alabama, 24-23
- Dec 4 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1)
Kennedy Center Honors
Dec 4 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony held for actor Kirk Douglas, singer Aretha Franklin, composer Morton Gould, theater producer-director Harold Prince, and folk singer-songwriter Pete Seeger, in Washington D.C.
- Dec 4 Tony Kushner's drama "Angels in America: Millennium Approach" closes at Walter Kerr Theater, NYC, after 367 performances, and 4 Tony Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize
- Dec 4 Tony Kushner's drama "Angels in America: Perestroika" closes at Walter Kerr Theater, NYC, after 216 performances, and 3 Tony Awards
- Dec 6 Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590
- Dec 6 Orange County California files for bankruptcy
- Dec 6 Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995
Ace of Base, Carey Win
Dec 7 5th Billboard Music Awards: Ace of Base & Mariah Carey win
Howard Stern Averts a Suicide
Dec 7 Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide
Darryl Strawberry Indicted
Dec 8 Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges
- Dec 8 Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed
- Dec 8 Revival of Donald Margulies' stage dramedy "What's Wrong With This Picture?" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theatre, NYC; runs for 12 performances
- Dec 9 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth
- Dec 9 US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after comments about masturbation
- Dec 10 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
- Dec 10 European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins
Nobel for Middle East Peace Efforts
Dec 10 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat
- Dec 11 Russian Federation forces attack city of Grozny, beginning the First Chechen War, in which the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria gains its independence from Russia
- Dec 11 Russian troops enter Chechnya
The Hits
Dec 13 "The Hits" 2nd compilation album by Garth Brooks is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1995)
- Dec 13 American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15
- Dec 14 Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam, China
- Dec 15 Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard's stage drama "A Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater, NYC; runs for 20 performances
- Dec 15 John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier
- Dec 15 Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
- Dec 15 Palau becomes a member of the UN
Monkee DWI Charge
Dec 16 Davy Jones (The Monkees), charged with DWI
- Dec 17 KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service
- Dec 18 Darryl Strawberry pleads not guilty on tax evasion charges
- Dec 18 Revival of Donald Margulies' stage dramedy "What's Wrong With This Picture?" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theatre, NYC, after 12 performances
- Dec 18 Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
- Dec 18 Stand-up comedy revue "Comedy Tonight" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, NYC; runs for 9 performances
- Dec 19 Rolls-Royce announces its future cars will feature V12 engine which will be produced by BMW
Ballon d'Or
Dec 20 Ballon d'Or: FC Barcelona's Bulgarian forward Hristo Stoichkov is named Europe's best football player ahead of Juventus striker Roberto Baggio and Milan defender Paolo Maldini
Berlusconi Government Resigns
Dec 22 Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi resigns
- Dec 23 Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players
Bulger Flees and Hides
Dec 23 Fearing arrest by the FBI, organized crime boss Whitey Bulger flees Boston, and successfully hides from law enforcement for the next 16 years
"The Madness of King George"
Dec 28 "The Madness of King George" film based on the play by Alan Bennett, directed by Nicholas Hytner, starring Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren premieres in the US
Tammy Wynette Hospitalized
Dec 28 American country singer Tammy Wynette admitted to the hospital with bile duct infection
Boon Makes It 20
Dec 28 David Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 v England, MCG)
Warne's Famous Hat-trick
Dec 29 Australian cricket's spin king Shane Warne dismisses England's Phil DeFreitas, Darren Gough and Devon Malcolm for a famous hat-trick in 2nd Test win in Melbourne
- Dec 29 B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed
- Dec 29 Bangladesh government of Zia resigns
- Dec 29 Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down
- Dec 31 1st snowless December in Baltimore Maryland
- Dec 31 Anti Apartheid Group of Netherlands (AABN) disbands
Music Concert
Dec 31 Largest free concert in the world occurs when Rod Stewart performs in front of four million people at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [1]
- Dec 31 This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively.
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